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- Ahnteis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6This is part 2 of a previous article. :)
- Mambo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5IMHO the idea is to raise awareness. Bad people usually know a lot more about bad things than the rest of us, but once we know something about their methods we can usually be better prepared to stop them.
That being said, bump keying has been around for a very long time. - 3monkeys, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Part 2 of the story, Part 1 was yesterday. Not a dupe.
- theonlyvlad, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Kind of an ambiguous headline/description. If I haven't read this story earlier (dupe, btw), It would have taken me a minute to actually figure out what it's talking about.
- Mambo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Bumping does leave some signs where the inside part of the key strikes the lock, but this has been overcome by adding wax to the key. You just have to look close enough to tell if a lock was bumped, I imagine most people would not though.
- mgagne, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3http://digg.com/mods/Simple_Key_Mod_Makes_Most_All_Current_Locks_Obsolete
- theonlyvlad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2well here's the deal with that: breaking your door in leaves signs of a burglary, and in most cases (unless secrets are stolen) the insurance company will pay up. The problem with bumpimg is it leaves almost no trace of forced entry, thus, making it very hard to prove to your insurance that you didn't just forget to lock the door
- bieber, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Gah. Bump keys have been opening locks with little effort in almost no time at all for ages. Why all the concern about them all of a sudden? I mean, seriously, if there's a serious thief out to rob your house, I hate to break it to you, but he's known about bump keys a hell of a lot longer than you have.
- KayinNasaki, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah, but that's true for lock picking as well. The point is, if someone wants in someone will get in. Doing so with no signs of force isn't anything new.
- HappyScrappy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah, you got it right, except for the weird nationalistic stuff.
Locks in the US are designed to resist force because that's what thieves use to get past them. Thieves don't pick locks. - KayinNasaki, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1That said, he could also just break your door in.
- HappyScrappy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Warded locks are easier to open than tumbler locks. VERY easy to make a skeleton lock.
Wafer locks are trivial to open. It's actually difficult to use picks on them because they won't respond to the tensioning the same way. But putting in any large flat object (like a knife) will open them trivially. Discs aren't much more difficult.
Don't be a fool. Bumping existed for 30+ years, nothing has changed.
And by the way, thieves rarely pick locks anyway. - beachdude, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Public service site about lock bumping and how to protect yourself against it!
http://LockBumping.org - wstrinz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1you know what defeats all these locks? a battering ram. More importantly warded locks suck (skeleton keys), I dont think lever locks are much in use, but those are quite easy to pick. Wafer locks are rarely used for anything other than a cabinet or a drawer, but are also pretty easy to pick, same for discs.
long story short, all types of locks are vulnerable to picking. - cbasst, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1isnt it also odd how this happened to appear on fark yesterday as well.
- CrackNSniff, on 10/12/2007, -7/+0Front page must be good...
- tseif0, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1buried for duplicate
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